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Senior Constable Stephanie Bochorsky struggled with post-traumatic stress after rescuing two young girls from their father who doused them with petrol and set one alight. The winner of a bravery award is now calling for more help for officers like her. ...

While the Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister front up to the cameras, strawberry growers are taking aim at government agencies for creating what they describe as "hysteria" over the strawberry needle crisis....

As Australia's levels of household debt relative to disposable income hit historic highs, experts warn a new threat is looming for struggling home owners with a surge in repayments set to hit interest-only home loans....

Animal welfare groups and the Federal Opposition voice concerns about reports a live exporter is about to be given the green light to export almost 30,000 animals to the Middle East, during the northern hemisphere summer....

Greg Rossen has been selling upmarket Perth properties for decades, but he's so pessimistic about the state of the market he's sold up his family home and is renting instead and he's not confident of any relief in sight....

As cases of strawberry tampering crop up all over Australia, a Queensland criminologist says the acts are intended to make people afraid with one grower saying supermarkets need to install metal detectors at the point of sale....

Unlike Tokyo, San Francisco and Christchurch, Australia isn't near a major fault line, but yesterday felt the latest of a series of tremors. So how do earthquakes even happen here in the first place?...

The Great Southern town of Newdegate records its lowest-ever temperature of minus 4.3 degrees and Wheatbelt farmers report widespread frost, while Perth experiences its coldest September night in three years....

Self-confessed cat whisperer Yvette Harper refers to her home as "a halfway house" for unwanted moggies. She is training five feral animals, slowly introducing them to human contact and affection until they no longer fear her presence....

The sister of a mother killed alongside her three daughters and their grandmother in a suburban Perth house says she is struggling to fathom the situation, as there was no indication of any danger prior to the killings....